Welcome Home

I am grateful for businesses that honor veterans for Veterans Day and on other days as well.

There is a lot to be said

for a citizen who is led

by his commitment to his country

to be willing to sign

on the dotted line

that he will defend

The constitution to the end.
And for those of us who fought

In lands far away

For our freedom and for others’

“Welcome home,” I say.

And to the parents and siblings

Of our fallen brothers and sisters

We cry with you for your loss

Because they were truly

Our brothers and sisters, too.